I just found out yesterday that I have vertigo. I've had the moving sensations for a week but I had horrible migraines before the weird sensations. I didn't go to see my doctor because I thought I was going crazy. I hope the meds work like others on here I notice they are taking the same medication advert. I thought I was alone and I thank everyone for writing your stories. Also is there a natural remedy for vertigo or something I can add to my everyday life that can prevent vertigo? HELP
> but my question is: since I have experienced vertigo once, is it more likely I will experience it again? And, those that do get vertigo, do you notice any warning signs or does it start up quickly with no warning?
I would say yes. Almost all of the symptoms I've had start out with a little activity here and there, and then three full-blown months of the symptom, and then it goes away. This is because of nerve damage - the nerve gets a little damaged, then a little more, and then your brain has to heal up from the damage. Typically neurological damage takes at least three months to heal. This is just my experience!
My worst vertigo was always in the middle of the day, so if you schedule things right, you can be inside when the vertigo hits.
I hate this!! To me, vertigo is my worse symptom. I can take all the others but vertigo has me in tears. I cant drive, walk, lay down, move around, nothing when I get this.
In my case, once I got it for the first time, I am now getting it all the time. I finally got on a medicine that works for me, Klonopin. My neuro says this is the med that works for most of her MS patients.
I like that description of being on a tilt-a-whirl ride although I wouldn't like the feeling so much. Everyone else in the family loved amusement parks. I didn't and I'm the one that ends up on the endless ride.
I wouldn't describe what I have as vertigo. I do get dizzy or light headed very easily. Sudden or rapid head/eye movements will almost always leave me reaching for a stabilizer. Being a passenger in the hubby operated truck-on-curvy-Ohio-hills ride is often beyond my tolerance level anymore.
I'm no expert on MS. Just working on it. It does seem from what I'm finding out here and from personal experience that a specific symptom will fade but tend to reappear under a variety of stressors or during an exacerbation. There is, of course, the added feature of new symptoms barging into the fray at random points along the way.
Best advice would seem to be to never think you've got it figured out.
Mary